Contextual Media expands upon the theme of social construction ofknowledge developed in Edward Barrett's three previous volumes. The thirteencontributions focus on specific applications of multimedia technology to culturalinstitutions such as museums, universities, and corporate environments; they analyzenarrative and other navigational structures in various interactive multimediasystems and make recommendations for the design of future systems based on theseanalyses; and they present innovative uses of multimedia that break out of theconfines of a single terminal to develop interactive transformationalenvironments.Contributors: Colin Beardon, Walter Bender, Edward Brown, Mark H.Chignell, Glorianna Davenport, Ben Davis, Peter S. Donaldson, Larry Friedlander, Geri Gay, Ricki Goldman-Segall, Janet H. Murray, Patrick Purcell, Michael Roy, NiallSweeney, Laura Teodosio, Suzette Worden.